Dear readers: Guess who Everyone hung out with last night? As you can tell from the subject box, it’s someone from 9t grade, but not just any someone, it’s our 9th grade World History teacher, Kim Pennington. (That’s right, Amber, we got to hang with KP!)

This is one of our favorite teachers of all time. She was one of those great ones who doesn’t stand and talk at you but gets you involved. Instead of talking about Joan of Arc, we did a mock trial. Instead of talking about the slave trade, she tied us together and made us lay on the floor of a dark room to feel what it was like to travel that way by boat to be sold into slavery. We loved her and her class. Of note, it is also her class that Amber and I credit with the start of our friendship. We knew and sort of liked eachother before then but it wasn’t until a marker cap incident in Penningtons class that we really became friends ourselves. And look where that’s gotten us.

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Needless to say, when KP emailed me that she’d be in the city for a conference, we jumped at the chance to see her. We met Zak at Taboon because he had to work and we spent 4 hours there and closed the place down with our fun times before we headed to Times Square where KP had never been. We had such a great time catching up with this great person from our past and for as much as we’ve all changed since Zak and I were in 9th grade, it was like no time had passed and it wasn’t weird or filled with long pauses and I’m so glad we got to see her again. She rocks!

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